Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (moocs)